Stock-releasing device



(No Model.)

T. ARNDT.

STOCK RELEASING DEVICE.

Patented Aug. 18, 1885.

WITNESSES: %J#W N, PETERS Pholclll hographcr, Washington, a. c.

llniTnn STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

THEOPHILUS ARNDT, OF FLORIN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND \VILLIAM SCHOLTNG, OF MOUNT TQY, PENNSYLVANIA.

STOCK-RELEASING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION Jon-hing part of Letters Patent No. 324,742, dated August 18, 1885.

Application filed February 6, IRES. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEornILUs ARNDT, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Florin, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Stock-Releasing Devices, of which the following is a description.

My invention is an improvement in that particular class of stock-releasing devices.

which are adapted for operating independently or collectively and simultaneously, so that the animals secured by said devices may be released independently and separately or si multaneously, as desired.

1 The improvement consistsin certain features of construction hereinafter described, and specifically indicated in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a stable, showing the arrangement of 0 my improved releasing device as in practice. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device enlarged and attached to a bar that extends through the stable. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the cast-metal plates forming 2 part of the releasing-bar. Fig. 4 is an end view of one of the castings, in which is located the spring-bolt that secures or releases the chain-ring. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail 1ongitudinal sections.

0 The individual fastening and releasing devices are indicated by the letters A A and the bar for operating all of them simultaneously by letter B. These parts A A B are attached by scrcwbolts and staples (or other preferred means) to the front ofa manger, 0. Each releasing device A A is composed (see Figs. 4, 5, 6) of a casting or socket, a, asliding belt, I), and spring 0. These several parts are constructed and connected as follows: The

socket (L is a casting having a flat base with a lengthwise recess for the part f of bar B, also a raised central portion provided with a longitudinal bore and slot to receive the bolt 7) and spring 0, also with a transverse slot to rccei ve the tie-ri ng D,attached to a chain, (not shown,) which is in practice passed around the neck of each bullock or other animal which it is desired to secure. Each bolt b has a lug or nose, 6, Figs. 5, 6, that projects in- 5o ward and works in thclengthwise slot h of the castings f. The springs c encircle the righthand portion of the body of said bolts b, and the portions of the latter which project through the sockets to aserve'as finger-holds. It will be seen that by drawing the bolts b to the right against the tension of the springs c the chainrings D may be either secured or released, as desired.

The releasing-bar B is composed of the flat cast-metal plates f and connecting-strips g. Said castings f are each provided with a lengthwise slot, 71, to receive the bolt-lug e, as before described, and with a right-angular lug, 2', having a hole to receive the body of the bolt. The plates f work in the recessesin the base of the sockets or castings A A, and their slots h are of sufficient length to allow the bolt-lugs e the play required for the independent action of the bolts 1), as illustrated in dotted lines, Figs. 5 and 6; but the boltlugs 0 e are normally in contact with the end walls of such slots it, so that when the bar B is drawn to the right the bolts 1) are drawn back and all the chain-rings D released simultaneously, as will be understood by reference to Figs. 2 and 5.

When the bar B is releasetl,it will be again drawn to the left by the spring of the boltb in the lefthand casting, A, which presses against the inner side of the said casting, whereas the Sc springs c of all the other bolts project through holes in the castings A, and are in contact with the lugs 2 of platesf. These lugs t thus serve not only as points of resistance for the springs 0, but also as stops for the bar 13, to arrest its motion when retracted to the left, and this is the most important feature of my invention.

The construction of the bar 13 of severalin dependent but connected parts-to wit, cast- 0 ings f and sheet metal strips g-snbserves economy, in that a casting, f, may be easily and cheaply supplied and inserted in place of one that chances to become broken.

A ring is affixed to the end of the bar B; 5 but a hand-lever maybe employed to operate it, if required.

I do not claim, broadly, the combination of a sliding slotted plate with a sliding bolt and spring acting on the same; but loo What I claim isi the end of said socket, so as to act against The combination of the plate f, having thelng 17, all as shown and described. lengthwise slot h and the ri hban ular aperturcd' stop-lug i, with the so cket K, recessed DHEOPHILUS ARNDT' 5 on the under side, and bored and slotted, as Witnesses:

specified, and the bolt b. having 111g 6 and O. M. MARTIN, spring a, encircling it, and projecting through A. K. MARTIN. 

